Japan

1842 avg ELO #1 worldwide

701 athletes · 568 rated · 15811 matches

🥇 1182 🥈 641 🥉 908 Total 2731

Olympic gold medalists

Athletes who won Olympic judo gold for this nation.

ABE Hifumi ×2 2021 · Men -66 kg · 2024 · Men -66 kg 1858 NAGASE Takanori ×2 2021 · Men -81 kg · 2024 · Men -81 kg 1542 TSUNODA Natsumi 2024 · Women -48 kg 1623 ABE Uta 2021 · Women -52 kg 1900 ARAI Chizuru 2021 · Women -70 kg 1363 HAMADA Shori 2021 · Women -78 kg 1296 ONO Shohei ×2 2016 · Men -73 kg · 2021 · Men -73 kg 1707 SONE Akira 2021 · Women +78 kg 1394 TAKATO Naohisa 2021 · Men -60 kg 1657 WOLF Aaron 2021 · Men -100 kg 1507 BAKER Mashu 2016 · Men -90 kg 1410 TACHIMOTO Haruka 2016 · Women -70 kg 1315 MATSUMOTO Kaori 2012 · Women -57 kg 1480 ISHII Satoshi 2008 · Men +100 kg TANIMOTO Ayumi ×2 2004 · Women -63 kg · 2008 · Women -63 kg 1150 UCHISHIBA Masato ×2 2004 · Men -66 kg · 2008 · Men -66 kg 1152 UENO Masae ×2 2004 · Women -70 kg · 2008 · Women -70 kg 1049 ANNO Noriko 2004 · Women -78 kg NOMURA Tadahiro ×3 1996 · Men -60 kg · 2000 · Men -60 kg · 2004 · Men -60 kg 1089 SUZUKI Keiji 2004 · Men +100 kg 1198 TANI Ryoko ×2 2000 · Women -48 kg · 2004 · Women -48 kg 1065 TSUKADA Maki 2004 · Women +78 kg 1064 INOUE Kosei 2000 · Men -100 kg TAKIMOTO Makoto 2000 · Men -81 kg EMOTO Yuko 1996 · Women -61 kg NAKAMURA Kenzo 1996 · Men -71 kg KOGA Toshihiko 1992 · Men -71 kg YOSHIDA Hidehiko 1992 · Men -78 kg SAITO Hitoshi ×2 1984 · Men +95 kg · 1988 · Men +95 kg SASAKI Hikari 1988 · Women -66 kg HOSOKAWA Shinji 1984 · Men -60 kg MATSUOKA Yoshiyuki 1984 · Men -65 kg YAMASHITA Yasuhiro 1984 · Men OpenM NINOMIYA Kazuhiro 1976 · Men -93 kg SONODA Isamu 1976 · Men -80 kg UEMURA Haruki 1976 · Men OpenM KAWAGUCHI Takao 1972 · Men -63 kg NOMURA Toyokazu 1972 · Men -70 kg SEKINE Shinobu 1972 · Men -80 kg INOKUMA Isao 1964 · Men +80 kg NAKATANI Takehide 1964 · Men -68 kg OKANO Isao 1964 · Men -80 kg

Podium medals by year

Stacked bars — height is total podiums; colours show gold, silver, and bronze mix. · 2009–2026

Bronze Silver Gold

Top 10 currently active by ELO

Match in 2025–2026 · 121 active rated athletes

All-time top athletes by ELO

Showing top 50 of 568 rated athletes (all years)

1 ABE Uta 24 results · 142 matches 1900 2 ABE Hifumi 27 results · 178 matches 1858 3 KAJU Haruka 8 results · 129 matches 1857 4 TANIOKA Narumi 5 results · 106 matches 1818 5 OMORI Akari 9 results · 109 matches 1778 6 FUJISHIRO Kokoro 9 results · 123 matches 1766 7 TANAKA Shiho 19 results · 164 matches 1756 8 TAKEOKA Takeshi 11 results · 95 matches 1746 9 ONO Shohei 18 results · 110 matches 1707 10 KOGA Wakana 20 results · 152 matches 1695 11 KONDO Hayato 8 results · 101 matches 1677 12 TANAKA Yudai 4 results · 97 matches 1664 13 TAKATO Naohisa 36 results · 166 matches 1657 14 ARAI Mao 10 results · 135 matches 1650 15 MURAO Sanshiro 23 results · 120 matches 1629 16 TSUNODA Natsumi 27 results · 102 matches 1623 17 KONDO Mitsuki 5 results · 61 matches 1612 18 KENTOKU Kairi 4 results · 92 matches 1599 19 MARUYAMA Joshiro 17 results · 72 matches 1598 20 TAMAOKI Momo 36 results · 241 matches 1597 21 MAEDA Rin 5 results · 89 matches 1563 22 NAGAYAMA Ryuju 30 results · 216 matches 1563 23 TAKANO Ayami 4 results · 56 matches 1554 24 NAGASE Takanori 28 results · 140 matches 1542 25 HATTORI Shinsei 6 results · 55 matches 1538 26 OINO Yuhei 9 results · 83 matches 1536 27 AKIMOTO Hiroyuki 20 results · 89 matches 1530 28 ONO Moa 3 results · 74 matches 1527 29 OI Iroha 2 results · 36 matches 1526 30 YAMAGUCHI Kirari 10 results · 84 matches 1521 31 NAKAMURA Taiki 12 results · 115 matches 1512 32 WOLF Aaron 25 results · 83 matches 1507 33 NAGASAWA Kenta 19 results · 98 matches 1504 34 FUNAKUBO Haruka 17 results · 75 matches 1499 35 EBINUMA Masashi 29 results · 140 matches 1498 36 OTA Hyoga 17 results · 71 matches 1494 37 HOJO Yoshito 8 results · 69 matches 1486 38 IIDA Kentaro 15 results · 72 matches 1485 39 NIIZOE Saki 26 results · 87 matches 1485 40 MATSUMOTO Kaori 28 results · 93 matches 1480 41 SAKAMOTO Haruna 24 results · 75 matches 1469 42 HARADA Mizuki 3 results · 64 matches 1468 43 UCHIMURA Shusuke 3 results · 57 matches 1467 44 HASHIMOTO Soichi 33 results · 153 matches 1466 45 HARASAWA Hisayoshi 24 results · 85 matches 1463 46 NAKAMURA Misato 25 results · 74 matches 1460 47 TONAKI Funa 25 results · 77 matches 1459 48 TANAKA Ryoma 14 results · 83 matches 1458 49 FUKUDA Yamato 4 results · 49 matches 1456 50 SHISHIME Toru 20 results · 101 matches 1453

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